Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF Turncoat Sings for His Supper

6 November 2007
opinion

Harare — My good brother Bornwell Chakaodza, the former director of information, the former editor of The Herald, the former short-lived managing director of Zimpapers and former secretary for information for Zanu-PF (Mashonaland Central), would have us all believe that democracy is all about elections if you read his articles in the Financial Gazette.

Elections are just an aspect of the democratic process and political parties and civic groupings compete in this political process called democracy by use of propaganda, crude or normal, to sway public opinion. But for you to ascribe certain standards for the information discourse is not correct.Though I will also invoke Voltaire's now hackneyed declaration "I disagree with you, but will defend to the death your right to say it".I rise in defence of the war veterans for two reasons; they don't have a newspaper and because the war veterans did what you and I did not do Bornwell.

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